Veto has no effect on Wood County's pending grant application, which included environmental impact study costs, local leaders say

8:07 PM,
Jul. 1, 2013

A semitrailer makes a lane change Monday while heading south on Eighth Street in Wisconsin Rapids.

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Despite Gov. Scott Walker's veto of a 2013-15 state budget provision that would have funded an environmental impact study necessary for the construction of a Highway 54 bypass around Wisconsin Rapids, local transportation officials say the action does not affect a pending grant opportunity for the project.

When the county submitted its application Thursday to the state Department of Transportation for a Surface Transportation Program-Freight grant, leaders included the cost of the environmental impact study, and therefore, the governor's action does not affect the application, ...